> it's probably better to let it go, or to flesh it out with something more substantial My thought on this exactly. When in doubt, elaborate. There are many t

> it's probably better to let it go, or to flesh it out with something more substantial My thought on this exactly. When in doubt, elaborate. There are many times I come up with something I think is fairly clever to say, but I'll resist saying it unless I can find something genuinely useful to say as well. Sure, my fellow HNers might have to miss out on all my wit and charm, but at least if the joke flops, the (hopefully) relevant comment that follows might redeem it a bit. In this particular situation, I think the reaction would have been much different if "What's the difference?" was followed by roughly the same explanation of your line of thinking as posted here... As for kyro's remark, while it strikes me as a bit trigger happy, it doesn't seem particularly insulting. If anything, I'm curious how he extrapolated "childish, baseless, and condescending" out of three relatively innocuous words. It seems like you'd have to write more words to be all three of those things. Anyway, not like anyone actually cares about my view on this, but I can't resist the opportunity to go all meta every once in a while.